Charon Naval Academy

Established in the very early days of the Human-Azimdi Condordat as a focus point for training new recruits to the slowly expanding Explorium.

Initial founders? Initial innovations in design?

When the War of Annihilation came to the borders of the Condordat, Deremex quickly redirected all the efforts of the Academy towards military simulations and training. These were, as one might expect, not well received and frankly insufficient as military doctrine had degraded over the years. Simulations helped, but could not prepare the fighting men and women for the war, and a lot of green crew died trying to man ships that they'd barely spent weeks practicing normal operation of, let alone in a combat scenario. Infamously, the 1st Shield Fleet was completely destroyed, with no survivors.

These issues aside, the overhaul did end up helping. Alongside the radical shift in industrial production to get some semblance of a military fleet going, the 2nd Shield Fleet had far more success and managed to, for the first time, stem the tide of the Consumers.

In the wake of the War of Annihilation the Academy received tremendous increase in funding and supplies, and effectively became two academies. With the majority of Charon being terraformed to suit the academy, massive new facilities were constructed and allowed for each given specialization to have their own 'city' within which they could train and grow.

By the time of the slow shift into the Concordat of Sentient Life, the Naval Academy stretched across an entire continent. Hypertubes and Rings helped people get to and fro and reduced overall traffic, and most attendees lived within their given 'city' while training there. Under the precepts laid down by Deremex the lessons and doctrines taught were under a consistent rotation of re-examination alongside practical application and information from the field. It is often considered the most prestigious center of learning in the Home Galaxy, despite being focused on the navy and little else.